Afrodizzia (2nd version) is a painting made of acrylic, oil, resin, paper collage, glitter, map pins and elephant dung on canvas. It is almost the same to Homage, part from the fact it has a collage element to it showing African faces within the piece.
I really like Ofili’s style and the way he approach each artwork, with a decorative narrative giving it a vibrant and colourful pattern which doesn’t overpower the work but also adding other elements and materials to each of his pieces in the form of not just using paint but collage as well with the musicians faces which is shown and displayed in Afrodizzia, it brings the piece forward and makes you really look at the story behind Ofili’s work. I also love that elephant dung is featured in most of his artwork showing a sense of the ugly world but the decorative pattern of the swirls showing beauty and light making the works balance and flow within one another and the world we all know today.
Ofili’s work relates to my own work in a similar style of using decorative, pattern and bold and bright, powerful colours to use for my backgrounds and the swirls are kind of like my dots displaying the same rhythmic movement and action in both myself and Ofili. Also when it comes to his elephant dung it can be compared to my nail work of showing the ugly side and adding darkness when using the fluorescent paint and the dots showing the beauty as well as using the element of light within my work therefore showing a link between Ofili’s type of style and mine but in the way different because is work is always full from the top to the bottom of the canvas but I like that fragile almost harmonious approach to my work making the viewers really look closer at every dot and punch hole to really see and understand the contrast of the piece and image within the paper.
